TFGIF [DOT 14/5/21]

14/5/21 MegMegMcGee 29

Guess what the extra “F” is for in the TGIF above?

This whole week has been a debacle, so I’m ready for it to be O-V-E-R!

Speaking of debacles:

Philadelphia incinerated remains of police bombing victims without telling families
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/may/13/philadelphia-move-bombing-victim-remains

I thought Jared was gonna solve all this? [Someone may have made the comment but I can’t remember who so sorry for stealing it.]

Israeli forces escalate campaign in Gaza with tanks, artillery, planes; Hamas launches rockets
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/05/13/israel-gaza-conflict-latest-updates/

Not sure if I’m there yet, personally, but I think we are getting there! Fingers crossed.

Sprots!

I think the kids say “fuck around and find out”?

Stonks! [Still laughing at this.]

As much as $365 billion wiped off cryptocurrency market after Tesla stops car purchases with bitcoin
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/05/13/bitcoin-btc-price-falls-after-tesla-stops-car-purchases-with-crypto.html

I want to go visit these cows.

RIP to this dude, patron saint of Moms and Office Workers everywhere

Spencer Silver, who helped invent the Post-it Note, dies at age 80
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/may/13/spencer-silver-post-it-note-inventor-dies

Stick it to the man!

Have a great day!

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29 Comments

  1. I know I’m late to this particular party, but the other day Dr. Kizzmekia Corbett was on a town hall and I had no idea she was this impressive of a person.
    (When Fauci started talking about a Black woman help inventing the vaccine, he should have said a goddamn superwoman who figured out the mRNA structure over a weekend with less trouble than I have assembling an average bookshelf.)

  2. A thought that kept coming back to me yesterday was that people are more afraid of being labeled anti-semitic than racist. Somebody needs to sort that out for me because it makes my head spin.

    • I’m just guessing here, but I’m going to go with the popular perception that Jewish people are higher on the socio-economic scale than Black people. In other words, Black people are less of a “threat” to someone’s career or livelihood. 
       
      I’d also point out that in our culture, the Holocaust is much more widely discussed and studied than slavery. Anti-semitic = Nazi. That’s concrete and well-established. It’s also more recent (I know people whose parents were freed from concentration camps — yes, that’s parents, not grandparents.)
       
      Racism, on the other hand, has a long presence in America and isn’t acknowledged by the majority of white people, many of whom “don’t have a racist bone in their bodies” (which, by the way, is code for “completely fucking racist”). Being associated with something that’s virtually invisible to most white people isn’t as stigmatizing to some folks. 

      • That makes more sense to me than what I was thinking, that it was because of the bible somehow. Because I had a convo once about israel and somone said that it was all good because it is in the bible, something about the land blah blah, I kind of shut down when the bible enters the convo.
         
        My thinking is not good today, I forgot all my trigonometry. If the hyp of a right triangle is 11″ and the adjacent side is 10.5″ how long is the opposite side? Is it 8.25″? Asking for a sweater design.

        • …I’m a little out of practice but isn’t it something like √(11×11-(10.5×10.5))?

          …if the square of the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the square of the other two sides…which I think is how it goes…which makes that a kind of long thin triangle with the the short base being something like 3.28…except that’s way off what you said so I feel like I’ve got the wrong end of the stick somewhere along the way?

          …if the two perpendicular sides are 11 & 10.5 the hypotenuse would be more like 15.2 which might make more sense but honestly I’m not really up on sweater patterns so I haven’t a clue if either of those is plausible?

          • I tried to test my answer on a ready made sweater and got 9″. So it’s close. The problem is if I knit a raglan sweater from the top I know that when the raglan seam is 11″ long the armhole is sufficient, but if I knit a sweater from the bottom and allow 11″ for the armhole it is way too big and sloppy. So I’m calling the raglan seam the hypotenuse of the triangle, 10.5″ is the distance from the center of the sweater to the outside edge and what would the length from center to neckline be? Does that make sense? Fuck, maybe I should plot it out on graph paper. I can’t math today.

            • …I think I follow most of that…but really only to the point of getting that where I was going wrong was thinking in 2 dimensions when you actually need to account for 3

              …I know at least one person who used to physically cut up big pieces of paper & tape them together to figure that kind of stuff out but I’m not sure I could figure it out with just numbers…is there not a clever knitting website out there with a special calculator that can work it out for you?

        • is this something knitting specific, or just applied general geometry?
           
          For right angle triangles, think of it as a rectangle sliced in half diagonally.  The slice/diagonal is the hypotenuse, and the longest side (lets call that “H” just to make it easier to remember).  so let’s call the two sides of the triangle that form the right angle  “a” and “b” (these are the original sides of the previously split in half rectangle.
          so, the general formula is H^2=a^2+b^2 
          Just to start out, 11″ and 10.5″ are very close in length, so without doing the math, this is going to be a very long, narrow, right-angle triangle. 
          So 11″ is our “H”, and 10.5″ is our “a”, and we are trying to find “b”…
          11^2=121  (this is H^2)
          10.5^2=110.25  (this is a^2)
          121-110.25=10.75  (this is H^2-a^2=b^2)
          square root of 10.75 is ~3.28 so a bit over 3 1/4” – this is your “b”
          Apologies if I overlooked something that would change how this is done…
           

      • …not that nobody knew anything in ’96…but anyone who knows anything ought to know that if you’re citing the heritage foundation you’ve already conceded the intellectual component of any argument

        …hopefully you now have their lunch money & they’re sobbing in a corner somewhere the way god intended

    • Well, it presupposes that either there is only 1 republican running in their primary or there is no chance that the expected winner could lose the primary. Because to change parties and vote dem means they can’t vote for their rep candidate.

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